Fail
Definition: Fails: plural noun and third-person present. Be unsuccessful
in achieving one's goal. A mark which is not high enough to pass an examination or test.
Number of Quotes: 54
To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of
reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.
John Quincy Adams
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
Scott Adams
Hundreds of people who've never written before send in Dr. Who
scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise
is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
Douglas Adams
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.
Minna Antrim
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
Whenever you fall, pick up something.
Oswald Avery
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Fame is failure disguised as money.
Brendan Behan
Accounting issues did not cause Enron's stock price to fall - its failed business model did.
Joseph Berardino
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Joe Biden
Start with your own money and value your intuition. It's all about endurance in the
beginning. Your dream and passion to succeed must be stronger than your fear of failure.
Terri Bowersock
The only real failure is giving up.
Scooter Braun
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
Victory has a hundred fathers, but no one wants to recognise defeat as his own.
Galeazzo Ciano
'Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.
Arthur Hugh Clough
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Frank Colby
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
The most common cause of executive failure is inability or unwillingness to change with the demands of a new
position. The executive who keeps on doing what he has done successfully before is almost bound to fail.
Peter Drucker
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Failing is good as long as it doesn't become a habit.
Michael Eisner
Those who invest only to get rich will fail. Those who invest to help others will probably succeed.
Art Fry
I think a man is a business failure who lets his family life interfere with his business record ... business is no place for him.
Jean Paul Getty
You can only stumble if you're moving.
Roberto Goizueta
Failure is a learning experience. It can be a gravestone or a stepping stone.
Bud Hadfield
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements,
and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Eric Hoffer
To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success
represents 1 per cent of your work which results from the 99 per cent that is called failure.
Soichiro Honda
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson
If we are to be more prosperous we need more millionaires and more bankrupts.
Keith Joseph
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
Observing your own and your competitor's successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.
Estée Lauder
It is not impossibilities which fill us with deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
Robert Mallet
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on
the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
W. Somerset Maugham
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.
Mark McCormack
If you want to become physically stronger, you'll need healthy habits - like going to the gym. You'll also
have to give up unhealthy habits - like eating junk food. Building mental strength requires healthy habits -
like practicing gratitude - while also giving up unhealthy behavior, like giving up after the first failure.
Amy Morin
There are interesting failures. There are prestige failures, and there are
financial failures, but this is the sort of failure that gives failures a bad name.
David Niven
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Richard Nixon
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that, when your position fails, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining
your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?
Scott Rudin
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
Robert Townsend
Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure.
Lao Tzu
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
Barbara Ward
When the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight.
Jack Welch
My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused
to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.
Kemmons Wilson
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